Growth to the Beauty of New Jerusalem

Song of Songs reveals that we seeking believers grow in the divine life and are transformed into Christ’s bride, the New Jerusalem, by our loving the Lord. The Lord uses a number of symbols to characterize His seeking lover as she passes through the various stages of the growth in life¹….She is fully transformed by Christ’s attributes of beauty becoming her human virtues to make her as “lovely as Jerusalem” (S.of S. 6:4). The New Jerusalem is the corporate Shulammite², including all of God’s chosen and redeemed people.³

We all have been chosen by God in eternity and redeemed by Jesus Christ through His death. Now people need to receive the Lord Jesus as Savior and life and then grow in this life. This growth includes the renewing of our being (Titus 3:5), experiential sanctification (Rom. 6:19), transformation from our natural life to living Christ (2 Cor. 3:18), being conformed to His image (Rom. 8:29), and eventually glorification (transfiguration, Phil. 3:21).

We are going through these life processes so that we can be built together with many other believers to become a corporate expression of God consummating in the New Jerusalem.
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¹ For a full exposition of this, see Life-study of Song of Songs by Witness Lee, published by Living Stream Ministry, and available for online reading.
² Shulammite is the feminine form of the name Solomon, indicating that she has become his full counterpart.
³ From pages 12-13 of Ed Marks, The New Jerusalem—A Corporate Person, Affirmation & Critique Monograph, A&C Press, © Living Stream Ministry (2025).

See also Growth, Transformation for New Jerusalem.

Posted by Don on May 20, 2026

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